
Musings about history, memory, and how we got this way. Focus on Hyde Park, Chicago, and the experience of 20th Century America, especially during World War II. Sent out weekly (mostly). You can choose which section you follow if you don't want both.
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I’ve been adding a few items I haven’t written about to my map and in the process decided to write up one. Usually I avoid a topic that can be easily found via a browser search, but I discovered that some of the fun parts of the story haven...
The plaque was created when a high school class realized that Frederick Douglass had been at the 1893 World’s Fair, holding court in the Haiti Building, for the whole summer. The Haitian Pavilion gave him...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I retired and this happened--writing about the history around me and sometimes gardening. I have two substacks--one about Hyde Park Chicago History, the other about my larger project (me, my family, World War II).
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